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	SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION APPROVES TEXT CALLING ON UNITED STATES TO EXPEDITE PUERTO RICAN SELF-DETERMINATION ...
		The draft would further have the Committee request the President of the United States to release all Puerto Rican political prisoners serving sentences of over 25 years for cases relating to the struggle for the independence of Puerto Rico, as well as those serving sentences for cases relating to the Vieques Island peace struggle.
		Puerto Rico’s socio-economic situation was very precarious, he continued, noting that the United States was preventing it from achieving sustainable development by forbidding the Territory from becoming an observer in international organizations.
		Calling for action, he said Puerto Rico’s national dignity and economical survival depended on the case being taken to the General Assembly and reiterated the right of Puerto Ricans to review a request that examined their future statues.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2006/gacol3138.doc.htm (1903 words)

	Pedro Albizu Campos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pedro Albizu Campos (September 12, 1891 – April 21, 1965) born in Tenerias Village in Ponce, Puerto Rico was the son of Alejandro Albizu and Juana Campos.
		The Nationalist Party obtained poor results in the 1932 election, but continued with their campaign to teach and unite the people behind a free Puerto Rico.
		In 1947 Albizu returned to Puerto Rico and it was believed that he began preparing, along with other members of the Nationalist Party, an armed struggle against the proposed plans to change Puerto Rico's political status into a commonwealth of the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pedro_Albizu_Campos (1228 words)

	Remember the 1950 Uprising of October 30: Puerto Rico (also known as the Jayuya upraising) by Carlos Rovira - ...
		The Nationalist Party also became known for advocating the right of the colonized people to use any means necessary including the use of arms, to win the independence of Puerto Rico.
		The revolutionary impetus in Puerto Rico which is credited to the Nationalist Party was the main target of the colonizers' repressive agencies as they sought to destroy the independence movement.
		Although the efforts of the Nationalist Party failed in expelling the colonial presence of the U.S. in Puerto Rico, nevertheless a political victory was won, serving as an example of revolutionary valor for generations to come.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Caribbean/Puerto_Rico-Uprising_1950.html (1684 words)

	The Militant - June 24, 2002 -- Anticolonial fighters champion Puerto Rico independence
		González, general secretary of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, was part of a broad pro-independence delegation, both from Puerto Rico and from the United States, that forcefully brought their message to the in ternational platform offered by the hearings of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization.
		He noted that for 60 years Puerto Ricans have opposed the use of the island of Vieques, two-thirds of which is occupied by the U.S. Navy, for bombing practice and other war exercises.
		The three speakers were Puerto Rican Nationalist Party leader Cristina Meneses; Luis Miranda, director of Casa de las Américas; and Gilma Camargo, a supporter of the fight for Palestinian self-determination and attorney for a Palestinian activist currently imprisoned in New Jersey because of his political activities.
	www.themilitant.com /2002/6625/662504.html (1632 words)

	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
		In 1930 he is elected president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and forms the first Women's Nationalist Committee, in the island municipality of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
		In 1935, four Nationalists are killed by police under the command of Colonel E. Francis Riggs, the incident became known as the Rio Piedras Massacre.
		In 1947 Albizu returns to Puerto Rico and is believed to begin preparing, along with other members of the Nationalist Party, for an armed struggle against the proposed plans to change Puerto Rico's political status into a commonwealth of the United States.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /Pedro_Albizu_Campos (1130 words)

	RW ONLINE:Puerto Rico's Fight for Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Puerto Rican independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos used to say in the 1930s that these invaders were "interested in the cage, not the bird." The U.S. strategic planners intended to hold Puerto Rico's territory and make it a key military base for dominating the surrounding region.
		Pedro Albizu Campos rose to the leadership of the island's Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (PNP) in 1930.
		The Nationalist Party called for a march to commemorate the abolition of slavery on the island.
	rwor.org /a/v20/960-69/966/prhist.htm (3639 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: N.Y. Parade Revives Past, Stirs Present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When organizers of the annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City decided three years ago that the 2000 event would be dedicated to the late nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, few probably batted an eye.
		Now it is time for Albizu Campos, whose Puerto Rican Nationalist Party fought violently to achieve the island's independence at a time when the United States went through the Great Depression, fought World War II and entered the Cold War.
		Albizu Campos, a Harvard-educated lawyer, and his Nationalist Party were the target of much repression by local and federal authorities since the 1930s.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/vol4n12/NYParade-en.shtml (571 words)

	USATODAY.com - Puerto Rican nationalist dies in shootout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		HORMIGUEROS, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Puerto Rican nationalist wanted in a 1983 robbery of an armored truck in Connecticut was shot and killed by FBI agents in a shootout, ending the fugitive's 15 years on the run, the bureau said Saturday.
		Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens but cannot vote for U.S. president, have no voting representation in the U.S. Congress and pay no federal taxes.
		Puerto Ricans who have argued for decades about their island's relationship with the United States were unified in criticizing the FBI's handling of the arrest.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-09-25-puerto-rico_x.htm (810 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Messenger May Change, But Message Doesn't (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Instead, as she has in the last three years, she came to New York last week to present to the United Nations' Decolonization Committee the position of the Partido Nacionalista Puertorriqueo (Puerto Rican Nationalist Party).
		Because Puerto Rico, officially called a commonwealth, or a "free associated state" (in Spanish, estado libre asociado), is a colony and has been one since 1898, as the UN resolution just reaffirmed.
		Her father, Juan Antonio Corretjer, was not only Puerto Rico 's national poet, but a fervent pro-independence activist and nationalist.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/vol4n30/Msgr-en.shtml (610 words)

	Puerto Rico's Culture: Famous Puerto Ricans: A-C
		He masterminded a nationalist attack to the governor's mansion in Puerto Rico and was accused of being behind the October 31, 1950, assassination attempt on President Truman at Blair House in Washington.
		One of Puerto Rico's leading 20th-century poets, influenced by Luis Llorens Torres, Clair Lair, Rafael Alberti and Pablo Neruda, she was a prominent member of the literary Vanguard movement in San Juan in the late 1930s.
		He was a member of the Puerto Rican House of Representatives and he wrote a column called "Paliques" for the newspaper of which this article formed part.
	topuertorico.org /culture/famousprA-C.shtml (3221 words)

	Puerto Rican nationalist killed - The Boston Globe
		Ojeda Rios was killed and an FBI agent was shot in the stomach and severely wounded, the agency said.
		Ojeda Rios was the founder and leader of Puerto Rico's radical Boricua Popular Army, which sought independence for the US territory in the Caribbean and was known as the ''Macheteros," or machete-wielders.
		Politicians across party lines blasted the FBI's handling of the operation and said neither the governor nor local law enforcement officials were told anything for nearly a day.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/09/26/puerto_rican_nationalist_killed (458 words)

	Puerto Rico :: Tau ah taiguey guaitiao-Hello and good day my friends
		Governor Blanton Winship and the chief of police Elisha Francis riggs, both americans,plan and execute the killing of puerto rican nationalist party liders.
		An USA government conspirasy to intimidate Puerto rican nation by killings and terror is proven.They kill 2 nationalist in police quarters accused of the assasination of the chief of police Riggs.
		A process of esterilization start by force agains puerto ricans womans to control natality that lead a third part of woman population sterile during their fertile age.
	www.freewebs.com /nemesispr/topsecret.htm (353 words)

	Espionaje del FBI contra don Pedro Albizu Campos en Puerto Rico
		In recent years Albizu and other members of his Party have caused to be published in the local press numerous articles insulting the United States and its institutions, and endeavoring to incite Puerto Ricans against the United States.
		Since 1928 the Party has conducted throughout the Island a campaign of public speeches in favor of Independence which constantly harp on the fact that the purpose of the United States is to exploit Puerto Rico and Its citizens.
		As a result of the attempt of the police to stop various members of the Nationalist Party from going to this meeting, an armed struggle ensued between the police and the persons they were arresting, which resulted in the police killing several members of the Nationalist Party.
	www.preb.com /FBI/15en1936.htm (842 words)

	SOHH.com Global Forum - Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Luis Rosa Perez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the face of determined struggle by the Puerto Rican people and their supporters, the U.S. government was finally forced to shut down the Vieques bombing range on May 1 of this year.
		Puerto Rico continues to be important to the U.S. rulers as a military outpost and staging area for invasions and interventions in Latin America and elsewhere.
		In Puerto Rico in the last four years, more than a thousand Puerto Ricans and a few non-Puerto Ricans have been imprisoned in the U.S. prison in Puerto Rico by orders of the U.S. court in Puerto Rico.
	forums.sohh.com /printthread.php?t=328916 (2238 words)

	Shoot-Out on Pennsylvania Avenue
		The would-be assassins were members of the small, volatile Puerto Rican Nationalist Party headed by Pedro Albizu Campos, a Harvard graduate whose exposure to racism in the American Army during World War I had left him an embittered advocate of the Caribbean island's independence through violent revolution.
		Although the Nationalist Party had failed miserably at the polls and fielded no candidates after 1932, its members had remained convinced that their cause would triumph.
		Although the Nationalists were weakened after 1932 by President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal efforts to help the Puerto Rican people, Albizu Campos announced a new government on the island with himself at its head and organized a fl-shirted army of liberation.
	www.historynet.com /ah/bltrumanattempt (1093 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Puerto Rico, 1898-1970
		During the term of office of impopular governor E. REILLY (1921-1923), the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party was founded, lead by LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA.
		This was not sufficient to appease Portorican sentiment; an attempt to assassinate the governor in 1948 narrowly failed, as did an attempt undertaken by two Portoricans to assassinate president Truman in 1950.
		In 1952 the Portoricans adopted a new constitution, that of the COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/caribbean/puertorico18981970.html (316 words)

	Why I no Longer Go to the Puerto Rican Day Parade - NY Latino Journal
		Regardless, we are all Puerto Ricans wherever we are born.
		With regards to culture, the reason why many young Puerto Ricans do not know the language or history is due to the fact that parents have become too "Americanized" and do not speak Spanish to their children or teach the history and culture.
		Puerto Rico & Puerto Ricans are treasures to behold.
	nylatinojournal.com /home/culture_education/ny_region/why_i_no_longer_go_to_the_puerto_rican_day_parade.html (10349 words)

	RW ONLINE:Jericho '98: The Puerto Rican Independentistas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This oppressive situation--which has robbed the Puerto Rican people of their land, wrecked the agriculture of the island, and driven many to the cities of the United States--has given rise to constant resistance, including powerful movements for independence and national liberation.
		Puerto Rico is a colony by U.S. military conquest.
		In a clarification of Puerto Rico's colonial status, the FBI responded by saying that they were not required to inform this governor of their activities on the island.
	rwor.org /a/v19/940-49/940/faln.htm (2376 words)

	Nacionalistas en NY celebran natalicio de Albizu Campos : CMI-PR
		The event was held in the Nationalist Party’s new Bronx digs, beginning with an exhibition of art depicting the life and events surrounding Pedro Albizu Campos.
		As young Nationalists were murdered by the police, the Party responded by assassinating the Chief of Police, Francis Riggs.
		This was followed by a blessing of the new Center being used by the NY Committee of the Nationalist Party.
	indymediapr.org /print.php?id=267 (1044 words)

	Remembering Puerto Rico’s Ponce Massacre [S&L Magazine]
		The anniversary serves as a reminder to the Puerto Rican people of the true nature of the island’s relationship with their colonial oppressor, and of the continued struggle for independence.
		Puerto Rico was a mainly agrarian country at the time, relying heavily on the export of sugar, coffee and tobacco.
		Juan Antonio Corretjer, a former Nationalist Party leader and contemporary of Albizu Campos who became a leading voice of Puerto Rican socialism, described the buildup in his pamphlet “Albizu Campos and the Ponce Massacre”: “On March 21st, and for some days before, a significant concentration of police was taking place in Ponce.
	socialismandliberation.org /mag/index.php?aid=773 (1173 words)

	The Militant - March 8, 2004 -- Protest ‘drew world’s attention to Puerto Rico’
		On March 21, 1937, Cancel Miranda’s father and mother attended a Nationalist Party rally in the city of Ponce that was attacked by the police on orders from Gen. Blanton Winship, the colonial governor.
		The kind of treatment the Nationalists were routinely subjected to increasingly became public knowledge and fueled the campaign for their release.
		The broad and growing worldwide campaign for the release of the Puerto Rican Nationalists was the product of, and part of, the deep political radicalization in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s.
	www.themilitant.com /2004/6809/680955.html (2011 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| American History \| President Harry S. Truman: Survived Assassination Attempt at the Blair House
		The would-be assassins were members of the small, volatile Puerto Rican Nationalist Party headed by Pedro Albizu Campos, a Harvard graduate whose exposure to racism in the American Army during World War I had left him an embittered advocate of the Caribbean island's independence through violent revolution.
		Although the Nationalist Party had failed miserably at the polls and fielded no candidates after 1932, its members had remained convinced that their cause would triumph.
		Although the Nationalists were weakened after 1932 by President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal efforts to help the Puerto Rican people, Albizu Campos announced a new government on the island with himself at its head and organized a fl-shirted army of liberation.
	historynet.com /ah/bltrumanattempt (1296 words)

	Julia de Burgos / FemBio: notable women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By age 19 she has already completed a university degree, and soon thereafter she joins the "daughters of freedom", then the Puerto Rican nationalist party.
		Her life ends at age 39 in that "tragic horizon of stone." An alcoholic, she collapses on the street, is taken to the hospital where she dies of pneumonia.
		Friends are finally able to trace her to an anonymous paupers' grave and have her remains returned to Carolina in Puerto Rico.
	www.fembio.org /women/julia-de-burgos.shtml (579 words)

	Puerto Rican Separatists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Cuban Connection in Puerto Rico; Castro's Hand in Puerto Rican and U.S. Terrorism
		Puerto Rico offers settlement to targets of anti-independence spying campaign
		Political Statement of the Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /separatists.htm (171 words)

	Workers World March 11, 2004: Event pays homage to Puerto Rican heroes
		Speakers at the historic commemoration paid respect to the ongoing struggle for the independence of Puerto Rico, with special remembrance for the Nationalist heroes who have dedicated their lives to this cause.
		Joubert was part of the medical team that examined Lolita Lebrón when she arrived in Puerto Rico in September 1979 after being released from prison in the U.S. The event included a mass led by revolutionary liberation theologist Rev. Luis Barrios.
		Albizu Campos was the legendary leader of the Nationalist Party and its struggle for independence.
	www.workers.org /ww/2004/puertorico0311.php (366 words)

	Puerto Rican nationalist radiated, says family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Nationalist Party Human Rights Commission, directed by Campos from 1930 until his death from cancer in 1965, came forward backing the Campos family allegations.
		Campos was incarcerated at the beginning of the 1950s after heading an attack with a group of Nationalist Puerto Ricans on Blair House in Washington.
		Recently, the Puerto Rican Senate approved a petition by a Popular Democratic Party member, Eudaldo Baez Galib, demanding that the US clarify if Puerto Ricans were ever used in radiation experiments.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1994/129/129p20b.htm (403 words)

	Centro Latino Cultural y Educativo Clemente Soto Vélez
		Upon his death in 1993, he left a rich legacy that contributed to the cultural, social and economic life of Puerto Ricans in New York City and Latinos everywhere.
		Clemente Soto Vélez's life and work exemplify his deep concern for the well being of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos, and demonstrate his firm belief in self-sufficiency and community empowerment.
		As a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, he fought for the dignity and sovereignty of the Puerto Rican Nation, alongside Pedro Albizu Campos and Juan Antonio Corrretjer.
	www.csvcenter.com /2005/csv.htm (250 words)

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